Post by thales on Jul 31, 2007 13:10:08 GMT -1
you've worked too long in a lab when...
1. You wonder what absolute alcohol tastes like with orange juice
2. You can tell what cheap and expensive white coats look like
3. You can't watch CSI without cursing at least one scientific
inaccuracy
4. You use acronyms for everything and never stop to elaborate
5. Liquid nitrogen is only about a 1/3 as dangerous as you thought
6. You always seem to use the microscope after the person with the
impossible close together eyes
7. Accident reports are a badge of honour
8. You've wondered why you can't drink distilled water in the lab - It
should be clean?
9. You give the lab equipment motivational pep talks such as "Work for
me today or i'll reprogram you with a fire axe"
10. You've worked out that a trained chimp could probably do 90% of
your job
11. When a non-scientist asks you what you do for a living you roll
your eyes and talk science at them until they've lost the will to live
(mainly for fun)
12. You have to check the web to find out what the weather is outside
13. You realize that almost anything can be classed as background
reading
14. People wearing shorts under a lab coat disturb you slightly as they
look as though they might be naked underneath
15. Although all cooking is a glorified chemistry experiment you just
still can't seem to get it right
16. Safety equipment is optional unless it makes you look cool
17. Warning labels invoke curiosity rather than caution
18. The Christmas nightout reveals scientists can't dance, although a
formula for the movement of hands and feet combined with beats per min
is found scrawled on a napkin by a waiter the next day
19. You know which part of the lab you can chill out undisturbed on
friday afternoon
20. You decide the courses and conference you want to go on by the
quality of the food served
21. You are strangely proud of the collection of junk you've stolen
from vendors at trade shows
22. You've used dry ice to cool beer down
23. No matter what the timings in the experiment protocol there is
always time for lunch in the middle
24. You can no longer spell normal words but have no trouble with
spelling things like immunohistochemistry or deoxyribonucleic acid
25. Burning eyes, nose and throat indicate that you haven't actually
turned on the fumehood/downdraft bench
26. Your slightly too fond of the smell of (pick one or many)
Xylene/Chloroform/Agar/Ethanol/Undergraduates/Alcoholic handwash
27. You've left the lab wearing a piece of PPE because you forgot you
had it on
28. You bitch about not being able to pipette by mouth any more
29. Security come round at 2 am wondering why the lights are still on
only to find you with your arms up to your elbows in a glovebox
30. you have made some kind of puppet out of a nitrile glove and kept
it as a pet (Putting dry ice in makes for a rapidly expanding if short
lived pet -
)
31. When at a Fall Out Boy gig you wonder why everyone is going round
with Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) written on their head!!!!
32. You have an irresistible urge to rip your shirt off superman stylie
cos it has press stud fasteners just like your lab coat.....Most often
occurring as you walk through a door just like exiting the lab.... (The
worlds of strippers and lab workers collide, not pretty)
33. You still get amusement out of "freezing" things in liquid
nitrogen!
34. Blinking real fast has saved your eyesight on more than one
occasion.
35. You've removed your gloves to find a small hole which has left you
with either - wrinkly old person hands, a brightly coloured finger
(histologists
especially) or a burning sensation and dermatitis and some point.
36. You've bent down to pick something up off the floor only to scatter
the contents of your top pocket.
1. You wonder what absolute alcohol tastes like with orange juice
2. You can tell what cheap and expensive white coats look like
3. You can't watch CSI without cursing at least one scientific
inaccuracy
4. You use acronyms for everything and never stop to elaborate
5. Liquid nitrogen is only about a 1/3 as dangerous as you thought
6. You always seem to use the microscope after the person with the
impossible close together eyes
7. Accident reports are a badge of honour
8. You've wondered why you can't drink distilled water in the lab - It
should be clean?
9. You give the lab equipment motivational pep talks such as "Work for
me today or i'll reprogram you with a fire axe"
10. You've worked out that a trained chimp could probably do 90% of
your job
11. When a non-scientist asks you what you do for a living you roll
your eyes and talk science at them until they've lost the will to live
(mainly for fun)
12. You have to check the web to find out what the weather is outside
13. You realize that almost anything can be classed as background
reading
14. People wearing shorts under a lab coat disturb you slightly as they
look as though they might be naked underneath
15. Although all cooking is a glorified chemistry experiment you just
still can't seem to get it right
16. Safety equipment is optional unless it makes you look cool
17. Warning labels invoke curiosity rather than caution
18. The Christmas nightout reveals scientists can't dance, although a
formula for the movement of hands and feet combined with beats per min
is found scrawled on a napkin by a waiter the next day
19. You know which part of the lab you can chill out undisturbed on
friday afternoon
20. You decide the courses and conference you want to go on by the
quality of the food served
21. You are strangely proud of the collection of junk you've stolen
from vendors at trade shows
22. You've used dry ice to cool beer down
23. No matter what the timings in the experiment protocol there is
always time for lunch in the middle
24. You can no longer spell normal words but have no trouble with
spelling things like immunohistochemistry or deoxyribonucleic acid
25. Burning eyes, nose and throat indicate that you haven't actually
turned on the fumehood/downdraft bench
26. Your slightly too fond of the smell of (pick one or many)
Xylene/Chloroform/Agar/Ethanol/Undergraduates/Alcoholic handwash
27. You've left the lab wearing a piece of PPE because you forgot you
had it on
28. You bitch about not being able to pipette by mouth any more
29. Security come round at 2 am wondering why the lights are still on
only to find you with your arms up to your elbows in a glovebox
30. you have made some kind of puppet out of a nitrile glove and kept
it as a pet (Putting dry ice in makes for a rapidly expanding if short
lived pet -
)
31. When at a Fall Out Boy gig you wonder why everyone is going round
with Faecal Occult Blood (FOB) written on their head!!!!
32. You have an irresistible urge to rip your shirt off superman stylie
cos it has press stud fasteners just like your lab coat.....Most often
occurring as you walk through a door just like exiting the lab.... (The
worlds of strippers and lab workers collide, not pretty)
33. You still get amusement out of "freezing" things in liquid
nitrogen!
34. Blinking real fast has saved your eyesight on more than one
occasion.
35. You've removed your gloves to find a small hole which has left you
with either - wrinkly old person hands, a brightly coloured finger
(histologists
especially) or a burning sensation and dermatitis and some point.
36. You've bent down to pick something up off the floor only to scatter
the contents of your top pocket.
One by one the penguins steal my sanity.